Bill Text: MI SB0557 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Mental health; other; certain state funds to be used to provide mental health services; allow. Amends 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1001 - 330.2106) by adding sec. 207b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-03-11 - Assigned Pa 0029'14 With Immediate Effect [SB0557 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0557-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 29

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

March 6, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 6, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 6, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Senator Schuitmaker

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 557

AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled “An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106) by adding section 207b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 207b. If a community mental health services program has entered into an agreement with a county or county sheriff to provide mental health services to the inmates of the county jail, the department shall not prohibit the use of state general fund/general purpose dollars by community mental health services programs to provide mental health services to inmates of the county jail.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor